Goliath Season 4 2021 Episode 5, title Spilt Milk aired 9/24/2021

     Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up.  He is spending more time in a bar than in a courtroom.  He reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman and McBride.  This is the massive law firm Billy helped create.  Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy.  This case is pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.

 

    I was surprised to see Cooperman in this episode.  He looks just as old and sickly as he did when we last saw him in the old days of Goliath!!  If he can help Billy and Patty conclude this case to their benefit, bring him on!!  Sam Margolis is asking the questions and she is the woman using a cane.  I wonder if she can pull this off with her limited amount of standing strength due to multiple sclerosis.  This is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system.  5* (I really like this season)

Note:  readysteadycut.com4* out of 5*, Rotten Tomatoes 100% with 5 critic ratings, 79% with 62 user ratings, Metacritic 7* with 5 user scores, Amazon 4.1* out of 5* with 844 reviews. 

Mr. Mercedes TV series episode three 2017: Cloudy, with a Chance of Mayhem

     Brady is once again getting chewed out by his boss Frobisher.  He’s upset Brady and Lou never visited him in the hospital.  Also, because he strongly suspects Brady was the one who rigged his computer to explode.  This is a good guess!!  Frobisher stays on Brady’s case all day.

     Later, Frobisher bursts into the company locker room to lambast Brady for using his break time to perform his second job as an ice cream truck driver.  He accuses Brady of using that job as a cover to deal drugs?  This must be a thing that happens since it’s referenced multiple times in this episode.  It makes Brady snap!!  He screams at his boss to “SHUT UP!”  

      Lou encourages Brady to take the rest of the day off.  I wonder what we’ll learn about Brady's relationship to drugs?  Or, does his mom’s alcoholism make him hate all things drug-related?  Possibly we’ll find out at some point.  5* (I really liked this series)

Note:  Amazon 4 1/2* out of 353 reviews, Imdb 7.8 out of 10 with 889 ratings, tvfanatic editor 4.5 out of 5, user rating 5 out of 5, Rotten Tomatoes 83% with 29 critic ratings 90% with 374 user ratings.

Goliath Season 4 2021 Episode 4: Forcibly Removed, aired 9/24/2021

     This episode opens with Tom True sending a message to Rob telling him to trust Billy.  He’s ranting a lot and then he raises the subject that someone is following him?  In the message Tom left, it’s clear he has been attacked.  Is he dead?  It’s too early to tell.

     Then, this chapter quickly moves to Billy.  He tells Samantha that he has to withdraw from the case due to being involved with Zax Pharma in the past.  He didn’t remember this but there is a conflict.  He tells her to reexamine the strategy.  A frustrated Samantha tells Billy not to withdraw from the case since he has a contract.  In the office, Patty is concerned about Billy’s blase actions.  When she joins him in a settlement meeting with Russell Drug, he has already settled with them for $900 million!!

     Afterward, Billy meets Kate.  She is George’s niece and he asks her if she’s afraid of her uncle.  Billy makes it known to her that he is not scared but his friend is.  We finally get to George.  He is boxing and there’s a twist?  Frank shows up and it is revealed that they are related.  Frank is worried that Kate is working on a new drug.  Since she is his daughter, he wants her to stay away from George’s plans.  Then it’s revealed that Zax Pharma is Frank’s company?  We could see this coming after the last chapter but it’s still shocking.  We have to wonder if Billy knows who Frank is.

Note:  readysteadycut.com 4*, Metacritic 7* user scores with 5 ratings, Amazon 4* out of 5*, Rotten Tomatoes 100% with 5 critic ratings, 79% with 62 user ratings.

Created by David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro, executive producer Lawrence Trilling, Geyer Kosinski, Jennifer Ames, Steve Turner with Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Arianda, Tania Raymonde, Diana Hopper, Julie Brister, Bruce Dern, Clara Wong, Brandon Scott, Jena Malone J.K. Simmons, Brandon Scott, Geoffrey Arend. 

No Place Like Home 2018

      At the age of ten years old, Liza Barton shot her mother.  She was trying desperately to protect her mother from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court rules the death an accident.  Many people agreed with Cartwright that it was murder.  The tabloids harshly compared Liza to Lizzie Borden and they continually pointed out the similarity of their names.

     To erase and forget her past, Liza’s adoptive parents change her name to Celia.  At age 28 she is a successful interior designer in Manhattan.  She marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster.  Soon after, they have a son.  Before their marriage, she reveals to him her true identity.  Two years later on his deathbed, he makes her swear never to tell anyone so that their son Jack will not carry the stigma of her past.

     Two years later, Celia is happily remarried.  Then her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband surprises her with a gift!!  It is the house where she killed her mother??  It soon becomes clear that there is someone in the community that knows Celia as Liza?

     More and more, there are signs that someone knows Celia’s true identity.  Next, the real estate agent who sold them the house is brutally murdered!  Celia is the first person to see the crime scene and she becomes a suspect.  As she fights to prove her innocence, she has no idea that her son Jack is now the target of a killer?  Not only her son but also Celia is a target of the killer!!  4 1/2* (I liked this movie)

100 min mystery directed by Lee Grant and written by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell with Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Scott Marlowe, CCH Pounder, Kathy Bates, Anne Pitoniak, Lantz Landry, Kendra Joy Casper, Steve Rankin, Rick Aviles, Ernest Eyth, Helena Ruoti, Michael Hume, Bill Dalzell.  4 1/2* (I liked this movie)

Note:  Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 569 ratings, Goodreads gives the book 3.88* out of 5* with 13,989 ratings and 846 reviews, Imdb 6.8* out of 10* with 366 reviews.

Mr. Mercedes TV series episode three 2017

     Brady is once again getting chewed out by his boss Frobisher.  He’s upset Brady and Lou never visited him in the hospital.  Also, because he strongly suspects Brady was the one who rigged his computer to explode.  This is a good guess!!  Frobisher stays on Brady’s case all day.

     Later, Frobisher bursts into the company locker room to lambast Brady for using his break time to perform his second job as an ice cream truck driver.  He accuses Brady of using that job as a cover to deal drugs?  This must be a thing that happens since it’s referenced multiple times in this episode.  It makes Brady snap!!  He screams at his boss to “SHUT UP!”  

      Lou encourages Brady to take the rest of the day off.  I wonder what we’ll learn about Brady's relationship to drugs?  Or, does his mom’s alcoholism make him hate all things drug-related?  Possibly we’ll find out at some point.  5* (I really liked this series)

Note:  Amazon 4 1/2* out of 353 reviews, Imdb 7.8 out of 10 with 889 ratings, tvfanatic editor 4.5 out of 5, user rating 5 out of 5, Rotten Tomatoes 83% with 29 critic ratings 90% with 374 user ratings.

Goliath Season 4 2021 Episode 3: title Signed, William Hamilton McBride, aired 9/24/2021

      Billy's unconventional strategy leads to a surprising result for the firm?  Billy and George Zax come face-to-face and size each other up.  One of the main drivers of Goliath is the idea that the audience is watching a conspiracy unravel.  Billy calmly navigates the information and he is possibly the only one who is sure of the outcome?  This final season plays on this strengthened theme well.  It’s addictive and enticing and the characters have a great script.

    This episode opens with a flashback.  it’s Rob and Samantha’s engagement party and this portrays their romantic history.  Samantha watches the footage from the party and speaks to Tom True about it excitedly.  Tom True reveals there’s a whistleblower in their midst and there are potentially billions of dollars at stake.  Samantha protests reopening the cases against the Big Pharma companies.  She asks him to drop it due to the risks involved.  Tom True can sense she is very much compromised.  5* (I really liked this series)

Note:  readysteadycut.com 4*, Metacritic 7* user scores with 5 ratings, Amazon 4* out of 5*, Rotten Tomatoes 100% with 5 critic ratings, 79% with 62 user ratings.

Created by David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro, executive producer Lawrence Trilling, Geyer Kosinski, Jennifer Ames, Steve Turner with Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Arianda, Tania Raymonde, Diana Hopper, Julie Brister, Bruce Dern, Clara Wong, Brandon Scott, Jena Malone J.K. Simmons, Brandon Scott, Geoffrey Arend.

Goliath Season 4 2021 Episode 2: title The Pain Killer aired 9/24/2021

     Patty finds herself on the hook for Billy’s behavior as he digs deeper into this case.  Episode 2 opens with a student basketball game for a state championship.  It’s a flashback and Tom True’s daughter is on the cheerleading team.  She experiences a nasty fall and her father watches on in complete horror.  

     Then it then turns into a trippy-feeling scene with George Zax on stage in an imagined Broadway show.  He’s on the piano singing about a fallen princess who is in pain and he offers his assistance to help her.  His way of helping is by giving her opioids.  He calls himself “The Painkiller.”  If that is not a direct aim at big pharma companies, I do not know what is??  It is filmed like a commercial ad.  48 min.

5* (I really like this series)

Note:  TV Fanatic 4.5 out of 5 with 4 1/2 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 100% critic with 5 ratings 80% audience score of 60,  https://decider.com/2021/0924/goliath-season-4-amazon-review/,stream 69.6%, skip it 10.1%, results 20.3% out of 227 votes, readysteadycut.com 4* out of 5*, Metacritic 7* with 5 ratings.

Created by David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro, executive producer Lawrence Trilling, Geyer Kosinski, Jennifer Ames, Steve Turner.